The Revival Begins

Earlier this week Tony said to me, "So I guess our blog is over, huh?" to which I replied, "No! I just haven't had time to update it in awhile." From there, the conversation went like this:

T - You realize you haven't put anything on there in over a month.
J - You realize we haven't been here much over the past month, and we've been busy moving and settling into our new place?
T - I think it's actually over two months since you've put anything on our blog.
J - And I've been back to the US twice since then, plus moved, plus have been quite busy (and exhausted) making a little person in this growing belly of mine.
T - I'm just saying, it doesn't seem like we're really going to keep up with our blog.
J - Well technically we haven't been keeping up with it at all over the last year, I have been. Maybe we should try to revive it.

So our attempt at reviving this blog is on. Never mind the fact that even before the most recent 2 month hiatus the postings were pretty sparse; we're trying to bring it back. And yes, I mean we. I'm going to be trying to get Tony to write on here every so often, though I may need to take the pink and green flowers off the background of the blog in order to help facilitate that. So if anyone out there still reads this, you can expect to hear more from us and can leave angry comments to whip us back into shape if we fall too far behind again.

An attempt at catching up for lost time would probably be overwhelming enough to kill the revival effort before it even gets started, so I suppose I'll just jump in at the present and see how we get on from here.

I'm sitting in our cozy living room in our new flat (a 2 bedroom flat to accommodate Baby Bolos in the coming year!) watching with delight as my belly is physically moving from all the dancing and stretching going on in the womb (a dance session that I likely induced with the bowl of ice cream I just finished, I should say). Tony is out at a send-off party for one of the guys he's been playing soccer with every Thursday night for the last year. Collectively we're grateful for the opportunity to still be here in Edinburgh pursuing this dream together.

Highlight of the week: the approval of a maternity policy at work that looks like it will provide me with a miraculous 6 months of paid maternity leave if our budgeting plans for living on 75% of my normal income prove to be feasible. The amount of shock that our American friends are probably feeling about this incredibly generous maternity provision can scarcely compare to the amount of distress our British friends are experiencing when they hear that there is no standard paid maternity leave in the US! We are simply amazed by this provision and humbled once again by God's provision for us.

With new found determination to be updating you again soon, that's all for now. Or as they say here, "That's me away!" Have a great weekend, everyone!